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Epiphone & Guitar World Giving Away An Elitist 1965 Casino
Well, here’s your chance to win a bit of re-issued history… Epiphone & Guitar World have apparently teamed together to give away an Epiphone Elitist 1965 Casino––a reissue of the guitar used at various times by three of the Beatles, and to this day Epiphone’s most celebrated instrument. To be honest, I’ve been drooling over these [...]
Continue reading...Relic Deluxe: The Essential Online Guide To Relic’ing Your Guitar
1. May 2007
Wow––ig blog posted this link earlier today and I just had to pass it on. If you’re the type who finds the current trend in “Relic” guitars to be a little too pretentious (I go back & forth on this myself) you’ll probably want to skip over this post now, but for the rest of you [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #15: Les Paul GT In Fire Engine Red
30. April 2007
Nice… when Gibson first released the Les Paul GT back in 2006 I was seriously impressed with the sheer number of upgrades the guitar shipped with, but also more than a little put off by the guitar’s less than subtle design (guitar + flames = cheesy IMHO.) But I’m happy to say that there’s now whole [...]
Continue reading...Video Review Of Seymour Duncan’s Twin Tube Classic Overdrive
30. April 2007
While researching some of the more recent tube-driven distortion pedals to hit the market, I came across this video review of Seymour Duncan’s Twin Tube Classic––a dual-channel overdrive pedal boasting a pair of American made Phillips-Sylvania 6021 dual triode tubes, true bypass circuitry, and what’s apparently a seriously road-worthy steel chassis. Now, I’ve owned a number [...]
Continue reading...Introducing The Verbrovibe: Headstrong’s ‘63 Brown Vibroverb Replica
27. April 2007
Hehe, you’ve gotta’ love this… Headstrong Amplifiers, self-proclaimed makers of the world’s only “exact replica of the 1964 Princeton reverb and 1964 Deluxe Reverb Blackface” have done it again, this time producing the first true replica of Fender’s classic, and not to mention seriously hard to come by, ‘63 Brown Vibroverb. And they call it the [...]
Continue reading...Fender Introduces Squier Vintage Modified Series
27. April 2007
Got a budding little guitar player in the house? Check these out… Fender recently unveiled one of the more intriguing additions to their Squier brand of low-cost (read: beginner’s) guitars that I’ve seen in years––the new Vintage Modified Series. Apparently taking a hint from the popularity of their more expensive Fender brand brethren, three of the four [...]
Continue reading...The Les Paul That Built A House, And Other Stories
25. April 2007
Fans of vintage guitars, and certainly anyone who’s ever dreamed of owning an original Black Beauty, Goldtop or ‘59 Sunburst, will definitely want to check out this great article in the latest edition of Gibson’s Backstage Pass. According to David Bonsey, musical instrument honcho for mega-auction company Skinner Inc, a ‘59 Les Paul like the one [...]
Continue reading...Vintage Guitar Magazine Reviews The Danelectro 56 Pro
25. April 2007
Danelectro’s funky, low-cost, high-style guitars have ridden a real roller coaster of popularity over the years, with the initial re-release of some of their early models selling like hot cakes, only to find the guitars languishing on guitar store shelves just a few years later. For myself, I’ve always been a closet fan of Danelectro’s instruments, [...]
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1. May 2007
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